The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart

by M . Glenn Taylor (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $18.30

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  Paperback
  2010

  $4.01

  There's little room in this world for a moral man.

  Meet Early Trenchmouth Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dorsett, a strong mountain woman who teaches him to hunt and survive the taunts of others. In the hills of southern West Virginia, a boy grows up fast. Trenchmouth sips moonshine, handles snakes, pleasures women, and masters the rifle - a skill that lands him in the middle of the West Virginia coal wars.

  A teenaged union sniper, Trenchmouth is exiled to the backwoods of Appalachia's foothills, where he spends his years running from the past. But trouble will sniff a man down, and an outlaw will eventually run home.

  Here, Trenchmouth Taggart's story, like the best ballads, etches its mark deep upon the memory.